It’s not me in Scott Meyer’s How To Fake A Smile, although it does look like me, especially in this frame. Also, I’d never use someone’s skin for a poncho, unless of course it rubs the lotion on its skin….it does this whenever it is told.
I was just listening to Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses
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City-data.com has compiled a wide bearth of mostly interesting, some random and a few useless statistics on American cities. I can’t get enough. For these examples, I selected lists for cities with populations over 50,000. Yes, it gets that detailed:
Top 101 cities with the largest percentage population decrease from 2000 to 2006:
#1 - New Orleans, LA: -53.9%
Top 101 cities with the most people born in the same U.S. state as the city:
#1 - Cheektowaga, NY: 88.4%
Top 101 cities with the highest average humidity:
#1 - Bellingham, WA: 79.4%
I thought I should include my hometown, seeing that it made the top 20:
#14 - Brazosport, TX: 77.4%
Top 101 cities with the highest average snowfall in a year:
#1 - Syracuse, NY: 115.6 in
Top 101 cities with the highest number of arson incidents in 2006 per 10,000 residents:
#1 - Youngstown, OH: 38.70
Top 101 cities with the highest number of rapes in 2006 per 10,000 residents:
#1 - Galveston, TX: 20.31
Top 101 zip codes with the most alcohol drinking places in 2005:
#1 - 78701 (Austin, TX): 80
My neighborhood makes the top 10:
#7 - 10009 (New York, NY): 53
Top 101 cities with the most people taking a bicycle to work:
#1 - Stanford, CA: 41.7%
Top 101 cities with the most cars per house:
#1 - Milpitas, CA: 16.9% 4 or more vehicles
Top 101 cities with the most people having Doctorate degrees:
#1 - Palo Alto, CA: 8.3%
Top 101 counties with highest percentage of residents voting for Bush (Republican) in the 2004 Presidential Election:
#1 - Cass County, ND (Fargo, West Fargo, Casselton), pop. 123,138: 91.5%
Top 101 counties with highest percentage of residents voting for Kerry (Democrat) in the 2004 Presidential Election:
#1 - Wayne County, MI (Detroit, Livonia, Dearborn), pop. 2,061,162: 94.8%
I could keep going…
I was just listening to Justice - New Jack
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Miss Teen South Carolina enlightens us with her thoughts on US American education and how we can help countries such as South Africa, Iraq and such as. It appears that beauty pageants are still…beauty pageants.
NORML and SSDP’s softball team, The One-Hitters, are the #1 team in their local Washington DC league. In a classic throwdown, they have challenged the US Drug Czar’s office to either a game of softball or a debate assured of their likely victory. Other teams, ironically in their softball league include Arizona Senators McCain and Kyl (No Talent AZ Clowns) and the Department of Justice (Vote for Pedro).
I wish the team well in clinching the season as well as their lobbying efforts. Also, the team has some great schwag for sale on Cafepress. One-Hitter pride!
I was just listening to The Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter
My friend Michael Baker, who maintains one of my favorite New York blogs, The Lunar Gemini, recently gave me a nice compliment as well as getting tagged with another blog meme; 8 random facts. Since I have had personal experience with a few of those tidbits (especially the infamous Blue Bell freezer at the Baker family estate), I feel compelled to further his blogger kharma and participate. I have also had a few drinks tonight which causes me to be a little bit loose with personal information. Here we go:
1) Experiencing severe pains in my abdomin, I had to be rushed to the hospital from Boy Scout camp with suspicions that my appendix had ruptured. The brilliant medical staff realized that my appendix was just fine and I actually had a bad case of gas from the highly volitle mess hall food. Several years later, I would learn just what it means to experience severe abdominal pain.
2) I am claustrophobic and (legally) color blind. Ironic considering my love for live music and graphic design.
3) As a young child (4 years old), our family lived out in the country on a “ranch”. We owned a horse – Rocky – until said horse tried to kick me while feeding him. My father sold him the next day.
4) I spent a week with some great kids and residents of Smoketown in Louisville, Kentucky at a community center where, several years earlier, a young boxer by the name of Cassius Clay, Jr. first trained as a boxer.
5) In Midland, MI during high school, I worked for an upscale retirement home as a prep-cook and dishwasher where one evening, a resident took a shotgun to his head and killed himself. In order to spare the residents and the female managers the grief of dealing with the aftermath – another prep cook and I dealt with the cleanup.
6) I jumped off The Tridge in Midland, MI in a highly word-of-mouth publicized end-of-school stunt with a friend.
7) In what is the strangest celebrity encounter I have ever had, I met Tom Arnold at a Cowboy Mouth show at La Zona Rosa in Austin, following a Barenaked Ladies show at the Austin Music Hall. After he jammed with the band, he told me he was in town working on film called Just Sue Me. I would later figure out that Tom Arnold is a liar and that I am gullible.
8) I recently interviewed for – and was seriously considering – a job in Baghdad, Iraq as a web development liason to General Petraeus and his staff at the US Embassy. Had I been able to obtain the security clearance they needed, in the time frame they needed – this blog might have gone silent for at least a year.
Fin. Ward, I tag you because I know you will be annoyed. Heh.
I was just listening to Clint Mansell - Death Is a Disease